Episode 197: The Family Altar Audio Devotional – Day 163

Episode Summary:

And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance. (Acts 2:1-4)

85 So I just happened to investigate. I went up to a fellow, I just taken the negative side, on both sides, to test out. I went up to a bro-…, this brother, and I said, “I hear that you belong to the Assemblies of God, a minister.”

He said, “I am.” He said, “What are you?”

I said, “I’m a Baptist.”

And he said, “Well, have you received the Holy Ghost?”

I said, “Yes.” I said, “I received the Holy Ghost?”

He said, “You speak in tongues?”

I said, “Yeah. Yeah, I spoke in tongues.”

86 He said, “Brother, you’ve got It. Hallelujah. Praise the Lord. That’s It.”

87 I said, “Yeah,” I said, “I received the Holy Ghost, and spoke in tongues, and for the evidence of it.” And I said…

88 He said, “Oh, you’ll come out of that old, stiff, formal Baptist church, then. Hallelujah!” And he spoke in tongues a few times.

89 I said, “Yeah, I received the Holy Ghost, was baptized in Jesus Christ’s Name. And…”

He said, “You what?”

90 And I said, “I received the Holy Ghost, and was baptized in Jesus Christ’s Name.”

He said, “You don’t get the Holy Ghost like that.”

91 I said, “You told me a little too late.” I said, “I done done it.” So he said…And I said, “I—I—I just…I just done done that.”

92 And he said, “Oh, you can’t get That like that.” Said, “You believe that kind of heresy?” See?

93 I—I said, “Oh, I wouldn’t call it heresy.” I said, “It teaches in the Bible.”

94 He said, “Get out of my house. I don’t even want nothing to do with you.”

I said, “Okay. The Lord be with you, brother.” Walked out.

95 Not long ago, an old Baptist preacher out there…That was my first trip to Phoenix, Curtis. I went to see this old boy. Walked into him, and I said, “Howdy do, sir.”

He said, “Howdy do.”

96 I said, “I hear you’re a Baptist preacher.” Way back over there, at the time when that little old boy, back over in that place was healed, with that lung trouble, back, where that tubercular place is back there. I forget the name of the place. And so I just said, “I hear you’re a Baptist preacher.”

He said, “Yeah.”

I said, “Have you received the Holy Ghost?

He said, “Well, what are you, Pentecost?”

97 And I said, “Yeah, I’m Pentecost.” I was a Baptist to the other one, but I was a Pentecost to this one. I said, “Yeah,” I said, “I’m Pentecost.” I said, “You got the Holy Ghost? Evidence, speaking in tongues?”

98 He said, “Uh-huh,” he said, “well,” he said, “I tell you, brother,” he said, “that’s all right.” He said, “But, you know, I never did just… Somehow, I just never could see it just like that.” He said…

99 And I said, “Oh, you haven’t got nothing then. That’s all there is to it. You ain’t got a thing, ’less you do it. That’s all.”

100 He walked over to me, took a hold of my hand, looked me right in the eye and put his arm around me. He said, “But we’re brothers, aren’t we? We’re going to Heaven, aren’t we, brother?”

101 I said, “Yes. And, brother, happen to be, I’m on your side.” See?

55-0911 – “The Unwelcomed Christ”
Rev. William Marrion Branham

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